He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous habit he hadn't realized he had until recently. Finn stared at the screen, the notification still flashing: "Likely Matches: 47". His heart did a strange flip-flop in his chest. A sudden warmth spread through his chest, a feeling he hadn’t expected. He'd always known his parents were the best. But this… this felt like discovering a whole new side of himself. A grin stretched across his face, and he found himself pacing the room, the click-clack of his boots echoing against the hardwood.

Emotion: vibrant

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 2.83 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -1.36

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vibrant. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 vibrant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vibrant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vibrant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.518
!0.459
!".0.436
de0.434
!).0.409
Suppressed:
S-0.890
L-0.478
P-0.407
H-0.365
😞-0.306